Re: [RFC][PATCH 08/10] x86: Don't ack_APIC_irq() if lapic isdisabled in GENERIC_INTERRUPT_VECTOR handler

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Wed Sep 16 2009 - 04:58:43 EST


[Sheng Yang - Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:42:29PM +0800]
| Xen hybrid guest don't use lapic, but smp_generic_interrupt() assume all it's
| caller using lapic.
|
| Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| ---
| arch/x86/kernel/irq.c | 3 ++-
| 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
|
| diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
| index c3fe010..a887d25 100644
| --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
| +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
| @@ -236,7 +236,8 @@ void smp_generic_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs)
| {
| struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
|
| - ack_APIC_irq();
| + if (!disable_apic)
| + ack_APIC_irq();
|
| exit_idle();

Hi Sheng,

is there was some problem with it? I'm asking you
because if disable_apic=1 then any apic write/read
operations become NOPs. So I don't see how it may
hurt. But I could be missing something.

-- Cyrill
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